and what we still don t know is what that 24-year-old girl was doing inside the enclosure. how are you doing? how is everybody? how do you think we re doing? it s awful. reporter: animal sanctuary owner dale anderson kept the gates at kat haven locked thursday, a day after his 24-year-old intern was mauled to death by a lion. our whole staff is it s just it s devastating. and i m so sorry. reporter: dianna hanson had been working here for six months. her smile in these photographs seems to show what her father says was an absolute love for the job. she just loved this was her dream come true, working with big cats all day long. nothing but big cats. reporter: one of those cats was cous cous, a 350-pound,
what that 24-year-old girl was doing inside the enclosure. how are you doing? how is everybody? how do you think we re doing? it s awful. reporter: animal sanctuary owner dale anderson kept the gates at kat haven locked thursday, a day after his 24-year-old intern was mauled to death by a lion. our whole staff is it s just it s devastating. and i m so sorry. reporter: dianna hanson had been working here for six months. her smile in these photographs seems to show what her father says was an absolute love for the job. she just loved this was her dream come true, working with big cats all day long. nothing but big cats. reporter: one of those cats was cous cous, a 350-pound, 5 1/2-year-old african lion. this is iphone video of cous cous taken by a cnn ireporter in
the cat sanctuary today, ted. what did you see? reporter: well, a couple things strike you going up there, is that, first of all, it s an expansive area and there s a lot of room in between each one of the areas where the cats are held. specifically, where cous cous, this lion that was responsible for the fatal attack, had an enclosure that he shared with a female lion. they ve shared it for the last 3 1/2 years. that female was there during the attack, was there today. she is making a very short barking noise that according to the handlers up here was because of the stress that she has felt. what we don t know, whether the attack took place in the larger enclosure or in a very small pen. and what we still don t know is what that 24-year-old girl was doing inside the enclosure. how are you doing? how is everybody? how do you think we re doing? it s awful. reporter: animal sanctuary owner dale anderson kept the gates at kat haven locked thursday, a day after his 24-year-old inte